WSU Jazz Festival + LIVESTREAM

About the event

Please join us for the 27th annual WSU Jazz Festival on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019. A highlight of the Festival will be a noontime gala concert in Bryan Hall Theatre featuring our special guests—the newest members of the WSU Jazz Studies faculty—guitarist Gabe Condon and keyboard artist Jake Svendsen, performing with the award winning WSU Jazz Big Band and additional faculty soloists, directed by Greg Yasinitsky.

Featured in an afternoon concert at 4:30pm in Kimbrough Concert Hall will be the faculty ensemble Jazz Northwest featuring saxophonists Greg Yasinitsky and Horace Alexander Young, trumpeter Max Harrington, guitarist Gabe Condon, keyboard artist Jake Svendsen, bassist F. David Snider and drummer David Jarvis.

Visiting school groups will receive written comments from our distinguished adjudicators and an individual off-stage clinic. Our guest artists and additional WSU faculty members will present workshops throughout the day. Trophies will be awarded to outstanding bands of the morning and the afternoon. Admission to the gala and afternoon concerts is free for all festival participants.

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